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“I discovered then that editing images had emotionally the same impact for me as editing sound. It was intoxicating. It’s like the state of mind of a doctor in the middle of surgery: You get to a place where time is not an issue at all, and you’re oddly at the centre of things but also you are not. You’re the person doing it, yet the feeling is that you’re NOT the origin of it, that somehow “it” is happening around you, that you are being used by this thing to help bring it into the world.”
-Walter Murch

“Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write War and Peace in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling.”
– Stanley Kubrick

“This picture, this picture—I don’t give a f*** what anybody says. If you don’t have time to see it, don’t. If you don’t like it, don’t. If it doesn’t give you an answer, f*** you. I didn’t make it for you anyway.”
- John Cassavetes

“Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.”
- Alfred Hitchcock

“What cinema verite tried to do was to present just the accountant’s truth. They were too fact-oriented. I have always postulated that we have to find a new way to deal with reality. It’s not so much facts that interest me, but a deeper truth in them—an ecstasy of truth, an ecstatic truth that illuminates us. That’s what I’ve been after. And in order to find it, you have to be imaginative. You have to invent. You have to stylize. There’s absolutely no danger in that. The danger is to stupidly believe that depicting facts gives us much insight. If facts were the only thing that counted, the telephone directory would be the book of books.”
- Werner Herzog

“Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can’t remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”
-  The Things They Carried by Tim O Brien

“Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes. ”
- Robert Altman

“Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness. ”
- Pedro Almodovar

“If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.”
- Woody Allen

“I don’t see scary films. I certainly wouldn’t go see my films.”
- Brian De Palma

“The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.”
- Francois Truffaut

“Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.”
- Federico Fellini

“Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.”
- Richard Linklater

“Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie’s any good or not — that’s probably true.”
- Walter Hill

“Self-plagiarism is style.”
- Alfred Hitchcock

“The good ideas will survive.”
- Quentin Tarantino

“Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.”
- Jean-Luc Godard